Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
Latest action · Jun 12, 2024 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 16, 2024
- Passed HouseJun 11, 2024
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue rules for disclosing information about federal contract solicitations for which small businesses were eligible and that were issued and cancelled.
Under the rules for such a solicitation, an agency must provide (1) a justification for the cancellation, (2) information about any plans to reissue the solicitation and any associated timeframes, and (3) information about any plans to include the requirements of the solicitation in another contract or task order of the agency.
Additionally, for such solicitations that an agency does not intend to reissue, the SBA must provide procedures for the agency to refer a small business that prepared a bid for such covered solicitation to the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization for assistance in identifying similar contracting opportunities.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 16, 2024.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MO | Mark Alford | Original | Apr 16, 2024 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Apr 16, 2024Markup Apr 17, 2024Reported Jun 4, 2024 |
| Senate | Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee | Referred Jun 12, 2024 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2024Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- Jun 11, 2024Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Jun 11, 2024Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3693-3695)
- Jun 11, 2024DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 8014.
- Jun 11, 2024Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3693)
- Jun 11, 2024Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jun 4, 2024Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 118-539.
- Jun 4, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 448.
- Apr 17, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 17, 2024Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 0.
- Apr 16, 2024Introduced in House
- Apr 16, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H3693–H3695Text printed H3693 | Kweisi Mfume D-MD, Mark Alford R-MO, Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY, Roger Williams R-TX | Jun 11, 2024 |
| House | Lists H2444H.R. 8014–8032 | — | Apr 16, 2024 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 28, 2024H.R. 8014 Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on April 17, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 66, April 16, 2024, page H2444.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to issue rules for cancelled covered solicitations, to amend the Small Business Act to provide assistance to small business concerns relating to certain cancelled solicitations, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2024Referred in Senate
- Jun 11, 2024Engrossed in House
- Jun 4, 2024Reported in House
- Apr 16, 2024Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
